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Joined: 20 Dec 2019
Last visit: 25 May 2020
Posts: 4
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Location: Singapore
Schools: NUS PT MBA '21
GMAT 1: 680 Q49 V33
GPA: 3.66
02 Mar 2020, 06:05
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Thank you GMAT club for all the help during my preparation, especially the question bank, mock tests and detailed explanations, you really helped me a lot.
regarding your great help during the preparation, I would like to share my experience of preparing GMAT here ——not excellent but enough for me.
I'm a Chinese who just came to Singapore to work on June,2019 and I'm a non-native English speaker, but passed TEM-4 and TEM-8 (Chinese English level test) during my bachelor degree. However, I haven't used it since graduation and I've never worked abroad before. So the first thing I have do is to pick up my poor English after coming to Singapore because I have to use it during my work and daily life.
I decided to apply for MBA by end of June, but I noticed that both IELTS/TOFEL and GMAT/GRE are required by the programmes I want to attend. So I spend the first 3 weeks to catch up my poor English and prepare for IELTS first, as IETLS is a language test which is simpler while GMAT is a thinking test which requires more complicated knowledge and skills.
I enrolled in a training class as I dont have much time to prepare during weekdays and I'm not a good self-controller. I went to classes every weekend to catch up with IELTS and after 3 months of prepareation, I attended the test on late Nov and get 7.0 (Listening 7.5, Reading 7.0, Oral 6.5, Writing 6), which is a really big surprise for me, because I've never tried mock test before and only expect to get about 6.0-6.5. So I ended my IETLS path and started to prepare for GMAT soon after.
I only decided to prepare for GMAT after I got results of IETLS. after checking the DDL of the MBA programmes I'm trying to apply, I realised that I need to get GMAT score before March, otherwise I might miss the DDL of the 3rd round of application, meaning that I only have 3 months again to prepare for my GMAT.
Again, I don't believe in my ability of self-control so I enrolled in offline GMAT courses which have classes on weekends. The classes mainly helps me go through the concepts and rules, formats of questions that I'm not familiar with, but I cannot say they're really useful, because after all the classes I did a mock test by myself, and only got 610(Q 44, V 25).
I really started to practise on Feb. I got more time for practise due to the corona virus (so that I have to work from home), and used the Official Guide, but I did not have much time to do the mock test.
I only started to practise intensively in the last 2 weeks, and the materials follows really helped me a lot:
1. GMAT official practise test 1&2
I only got 600（Q48 V24,IR1) for practise 1 and 620 for practise 2 (Q49,V27,IR4).
But they made me realise that quantitive is not my weakness as every time I could get between 48-50 if treated seriously, but my quantitive percentage is really bad.
2.GMAT Club CAT test - verbal
I only started to use the test 3 days before the exam. Although those test were not really accurate (I often found reviews saying that the question is of poor quality) but I practised 2 tests (the first got V29 and the second got V33)specially for verbal and it let me get familiar with the speed I need to achieve, and the explanations and classification of each question is really helpful to me, as they get me falimiar with the way of eliminating the wrong answers and the common errors happened in SC.
3. Official Guide
After the several tests tried above, I only got 1 days to prepare my exam if I could improve anything immediately. I got really nervous as I still feel i cannot get my expected score in such a short time.
I found verbal was my really weakness as I always got 12-15 wrong out of 36 questions, but Reading Comprehension is not something that I could improve in such a short time, neither was Critical Reasoning. the only option let was Sentence Correction.
So I choose all the SC questions in official guide and practise all of them intensively in one day (I performed about 60 before, only 68 left). After I practised about 40 questions, I gradually found the pattern inside: it's always about parallism, S-V , V-ING and idioms. So I stopped and did a simple reflection before moving forward to the rest questions. Finally, for the last 30 questions I managed to get 17 right, which is a really BIGGG progress to me.
4.Time management tricks for taking the exam
I happened to get recommendation from google on this article, which really helped me a lot on my time management strategies:
"NEW FORMAT GMAT Prep Software Analysis and What If Scenarios"
From the attempts in the passage we can see that the first 10 questions are really important as they might determine the overall level you might have in the GMAT verbal and quantitive, so in the real test I spend more time on the first 10 questions. Although it made me really hurry up in the final few questions so that I have to skip several questions that I found I cannot figure out in 2 mins or I might probably get wrong even I spend time on it (my weakness - reading comprehension in verbal and sets&geometry in quantitive). so here is my suggestion my time management:
4.1 spend more time on the first 10 questions and last 10 questions, as the first 10 questions are important and the last 10 questions will usually be simpler as the examiner also consider the limited time and don't want to make the last 10 questions too difficult.(actually I found them much easier then those questions in the middle sequence)
4.2 for quantitive, check the time management every 5 questions, so that you know you should hurry up or be more careful. e,g. 5 questions - 52 mins left, 10 questions - 42mins lest, etc.
4.3 if you found you dont have enough time to answer all the questions, skip the type of questions you are not good at and those that cost lot of time, e.g. Sets, Geometry in Quantitive and Reading in Verbal) in order to give time to those easier ones.
What's more bizarre is that I didn't manage to get in the test centre in time (I got stuck in traffic jam!!) . The exam should begin on 8am but I only got there at 8:15am. Luckily, they managed to arrange me in the next round (11am). So I stayed in a Starbucks nearby and finished all the rest Critical Reasoning questions in Official Guide, which I think might also helps a bit, although not much.
Anyway, although 680 is not a high score, it's already enough for me to proceed with my appliance of MBA programmes, so I will not take it again any time soon.
Thank you GMAT club for all the knowledge and question bank that helped me during my preparations, and hope every one could get the ideal scores you want!!
regarding your great help during the preparation, I would like to share my experience of preparing GMAT here ——not excellent but enough for me.
I'm a Chinese who just came to Singapore to work on June,2019 and I'm a non-native English speaker, but passed TEM-4 and TEM-8 (Chinese English level test) during my bachelor degree. However, I haven't used it since graduation and I've never worked abroad before. So the first thing I have do is to pick up my poor English after coming to Singapore because I have to use it during my work and daily life.
I decided to apply for MBA by end of June, but I noticed that both IELTS/TOFEL and GMAT/GRE are required by the programmes I want to attend. So I spend the first 3 weeks to catch up my poor English and prepare for IELTS first, as IETLS is a language test which is simpler while GMAT is a thinking test which requires more complicated knowledge and skills.
3 months for IETLS - 7.0 (Listening 7.5, Reading 7.0, Oral 6.5, Writing 6)
I enrolled in a training class as I dont have much time to prepare during weekdays and I'm not a good self-controller. I went to classes every weekend to catch up with IELTS and after 3 months of prepareation, I attended the test on late Nov and get 7.0 (Listening 7.5, Reading 7.0, Oral 6.5, Writing 6), which is a really big surprise for me, because I've never tried mock test before and only expect to get about 6.0-6.5. So I ended my IETLS path and started to prepare for GMAT soon after.
3 months for GMAT - 680(Q49,V33)
Preparation story
I only decided to prepare for GMAT after I got results of IETLS. after checking the DDL of the MBA programmes I'm trying to apply, I realised that I need to get GMAT score before March, otherwise I might miss the DDL of the 3rd round of application, meaning that I only have 3 months again to prepare for my GMAT.
Again, I don't believe in my ability of self-control so I enrolled in offline GMAT courses which have classes on weekends. The classes mainly helps me go through the concepts and rules, formats of questions that I'm not familiar with, but I cannot say they're really useful, because after all the classes I did a mock test by myself, and only got 610(Q 44, V 25).
I really started to practise on Feb. I got more time for practise due to the corona virus (so that I have to work from home), and used the Official Guide, but I did not have much time to do the mock test.
I only started to practise intensively in the last 2 weeks, and the materials follows really helped me a lot:
1. GMAT official practise test 1&2
I only got 600（Q48 V24,IR1) for practise 1 and 620 for practise 2 (Q49,V27,IR4).
But they made me realise that quantitive is not my weakness as every time I could get between 48-50 if treated seriously, but my quantitive percentage is really bad.
2.GMAT Club CAT test - verbal
I only started to use the test 3 days before the exam. Although those test were not really accurate (I often found reviews saying that the question is of poor quality) but I practised 2 tests (the first got V29 and the second got V33)specially for verbal and it let me get familiar with the speed I need to achieve, and the explanations and classification of each question is really helpful to me, as they get me falimiar with the way of eliminating the wrong answers and the common errors happened in SC.
3. Official Guide
After the several tests tried above, I only got 1 days to prepare my exam if I could improve anything immediately. I got really nervous as I still feel i cannot get my expected score in such a short time.
I found verbal was my really weakness as I always got 12-15 wrong out of 36 questions, but Reading Comprehension is not something that I could improve in such a short time, neither was Critical Reasoning. the only option let was Sentence Correction.
So I choose all the SC questions in official guide and practise all of them intensively in one day (I performed about 60 before, only 68 left). After I practised about 40 questions, I gradually found the pattern inside: it's always about parallism, S-V , V-ING and idioms. So I stopped and did a simple reflection before moving forward to the rest questions. Finally, for the last 30 questions I managed to get 17 right, which is a really BIGGG progress to me.
4.Time management tricks for taking the exam
I happened to get recommendation from google on this article, which really helped me a lot on my time management strategies:
"NEW FORMAT GMAT Prep Software Analysis and What If Scenarios"
From the attempts in the passage we can see that the first 10 questions are really important as they might determine the overall level you might have in the GMAT verbal and quantitive, so in the real test I spend more time on the first 10 questions. Although it made me really hurry up in the final few questions so that I have to skip several questions that I found I cannot figure out in 2 mins or I might probably get wrong even I spend time on it (my weakness - reading comprehension in verbal and sets&geometry in quantitive). so here is my suggestion my time management:
4.1 spend more time on the first 10 questions and last 10 questions, as the first 10 questions are important and the last 10 questions will usually be simpler as the examiner also consider the limited time and don't want to make the last 10 questions too difficult.(actually I found them much easier then those questions in the middle sequence)
4.2 for quantitive, check the time management every 5 questions, so that you know you should hurry up or be more careful. e,g. 5 questions - 52 mins left, 10 questions - 42mins lest, etc.
4.3 if you found you dont have enough time to answer all the questions, skip the type of questions you are not good at and those that cost lot of time, e.g. Sets, Geometry in Quantitive and Reading in Verbal) in order to give time to those easier ones.
My story on the GMAT exam day
What's more bizarre is that I didn't manage to get in the test centre in time (I got stuck in traffic jam!!) . The exam should begin on 8am but I only got there at 8:15am. Luckily, they managed to arrange me in the next round (11am). So I stayed in a Starbucks nearby and finished all the rest Critical Reasoning questions in Official Guide, which I think might also helps a bit, although not much.
Anyway, although 680 is not a high score, it's already enough for me to proceed with my appliance of MBA programmes, so I will not take it again any time soon.
Thank you GMAT club for all the knowledge and question bank that helped me during my preparations, and hope every one could get the ideal scores you want!!
02 Mar 2020, 07:57
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Congrats! Thank you for sharing. Good luck with things moving forward.
02 Mar 2020, 22:30
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You did a fantastic job scoring 680 after three months' study. Congratulations!
